By Denis Campbell
Ya think? 
It was a tragic tabloid headline feeding frenzy. 12-year old Alfie Patten of Essex was by all photographic accounts an extremely pre-pubescent child. Yet he was paraded out before paparazzi by baby Maisie’s mother Chantelle Stedman, age 15, as the father back in February. 
Most were as stunned as the deer-caught-in-the-headlights Alfie. Near [...]

 
By Madeleine Begun Kane
(Two new, hysterically funny limericks from Mad Kane - Ed.)
Fox News “pundit” rants always look foolish, especially when they’re packed with gleeful predictions of Democratic failures. And most especially when their predictions turn out to be dramatically wrong.
Such, thankfully, was the case with the loony rantings indulged in by Newt Gingrich, Glenn [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Fuming About Hume
What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship.And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
The Bush countdown calendar’s down to its last sheet. 385 pages gone. It’s been almost 2-years since that freezing day Obama announced his candidacy on the Illinois Statehouse steps. We are more than halfway through a positively giddy festival of a celebration weekend. Thousands are milling about the Washington DC Mall just wanting [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
Keith Olbermann will utter the words: “That’s Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck” thus closing Monday night’s MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008. 
If children have been born during this two year long Presidential campaign, imagine what [...]

Ten years abroad and I have to say it is getting better. I now have C-SPAN and MSNBC streaming live convention feeds on each computer, CNN is taping on SKY+ in case Mr. Sandman calls before 5 am local time. The DNCC have an amazing online HD Player for streaming video that is better than [...]

Yesterday at the University of Denver, Jon Stewart ripped the 24-hour cable news beast for the current campaign craziness. We’ve often chastised the media here for the 600 word newsfeed rip, place two opposing quotes, add an expert opinion and presto! News.
Jon has a history of trying to get news outlets to do their job [...]

In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]

Talking ‘With’ Rather Than ‘At’ Each Other on the Campaign Trail
This e-magazine had its busiest day ever last week by mentioning one man’s name – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. I happen to like the guy and his work even if he periodically goes off the emotional deep end. Keith is mostly honest, open and brutal and [...]

On my 10th US Independence Day abroad, I’ll walk across our meadow to where the UK’s Severn River meets the Irish Sea and toss in the contents of a tea bag to celebrate. US holidays abroad are a bit strange. It’s Friday here. No hours-long parades, political speeches, fireworks, over-stuffing myself at cookouts or other [...]